The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) said on Wednesday that a bogus doctor was arrested in Nigel in Gauteng following a tip-off. HPCSA spokesperson Priscilla Sekhonyana said: “The Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA) in collaboration with the South Africa Product Regulatory Authority and the Provincial Organised Crime Unit conducted an operation..
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Tip-off leads to arrest of bogus doctor in Nigel –How many bogus doctors are actually operating in South-Africa and treating us?
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Woman to sue Gauteng health department after giving birth to ‘decapitated’ baby in state hospital
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A 19-year-old woman who delivered a “decapitated” baby is planning to sue the Gauteng health department. According to eNCA, the woman had suffered with abdominal pain for a few weeks before she went into labour. The woman, who has not been named, spoke to eNCA. She then went to a general practitioner, who found that..
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Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital: #RollingBlackouts Placing Strain On Equipment – the longer the hours of power cuts, the higher the risks for mechanical failures
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Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital management says that load shedding is having a negative impact on its back-up power supply. The hospital says 85% of its site is now covered by generators, including all medical services. But the hospital said rolling blackouts are placing a strain on equipment. Control works inspector for the electrical section at..
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Lyk verdwyn, koelkamers stukkend in die Mthatha-patologie-laboratorium in die Oos-Kaap – Hoe de joos, verdwyn ’n lyk in die lykshuis?
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’n Vermiste lyk, stukkende koelkamers waarin lyke gehou word en personeel wat glo op grond van hul politieke affiliasie aangestel word – dis hoe dinge glo in die Mthatha-patologie-laboratorium in die Oos-Kaap lyk. Jane Cowley, DA-woordvoerder oor gesondheid in die Oos-Kaap, sê die lyk van ’n jong man het in Januarie spoorloos uit die lykshuis..
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No more water at Gauteng state hospital – operations canceled and patients diverted
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The Bertha Gxowa Hospital in Germiston has had to cancel operations and divert patients because of a failure of water supply from the City of Ekurhuleni municipality, the Democratic Alliance in Gauteng said on Sunday. “I visited the hospital last week on Friday after receiving reports that the hospital ran out of water the day..
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The ANC Has Finally Pushed South Africans Too Far – South African citizens are #gatvol of this corrupt & deceitful, and uncaring and incompetent ANC Government
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South Africans are treated like animals at Tlhabane Community Health Center (CHC) in Rustenburg. This facility was officially opened by Health MEC, Dr. Magome Masike on in 2014, to address the main challenge of access to health care. The disgusting and dangerous conditions in state run hospitals show a wilful negligence by the Department of..
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‘Terminally ill children left to die in pain in SA government hospitals’ – ANC-regime has not yet implemented its policy on palliative care, affecting paediatric patients with terminal illnesses.
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This is the assertion of paediatrician Dr Michelle Meiring, who said while the policy had been approved, there has been no budget to implement it. “These kids are suffering in pain today. We need to do something more urgently,” she said. Meiring is a senior lecturer in palliative medicine at the University of Cape Town,..
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Ill baby denied healthcare at state hospitals, as a result of very arrogant medical employees the infant died – death could have been prevented if medical team chose to do their job properly
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A Pietermaritzburg woman’s impassioned plea for nurses at two city hospitals to help her very ill infant fell on deaf ears and hours later the five-month-old baby died. After his mother was turned away from two state hospitals — Grey’s and Northdale — baby Brody Lee Bezuidenhout could not hold on any longer and died…
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Laerskool in Limpopo gesluit tot verdere kennisgewing oor uitbreek van hoogs aansteeklike bakteriese siekte
WGO waarsku oor ’n volgende griep epidemie –Sal SA-regering gereed wees om so ’n krisis die hoof te bied as mens die huidige gesondheidskrisis van die land in ag neem?
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Die Wêreld Gesondheid Organisasie (WGO) van die Verenigde Nasies het ’n allesomvattende wêreld plan opgestel om ’n volgende griep epidemie te voorkom. Die plan word beskou as die mees omvattende aksie wat ten doel het om die wêreld voor te berei vir die volgende griep pandemie. Volgens die WGO is dit nie ’n kwessie van..
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